. The Street railway journal . RYING AWAY SURFACE WATER portion of the city upon which a ij/^-mile extension hasjust been completed. One mile of track is laid with highT-rail, but with this exception the rails are all 70-lb. standard 638 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 15. section. The trolley is of No. 0 wire and is placed 17 the rails. THE INTERURBAN LINE The interurban line was opened for service Sept. i, 1906, and is built on a private right of way 100 ft. to 130 ft. wide. Provision has been made for double-tracking by building the track 6 ft. off center. Where the road cr
. The Street railway journal . RYING AWAY SURFACE WATER portion of the city upon which a ij/^-mile extension hasjust been completed. One mile of track is laid with highT-rail, but with this exception the rails are all 70-lb. standard 638 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIX. No. 15. section. The trolley is of No. 0 wire and is placed 17 the rails. THE INTERURBAN LINE The interurban line was opened for service Sept. i, 1906, and is built on a private right of way 100 ft. to 130 ft. wide. Provision has been made for double-tracking by building the track 6 ft. off center. Where the road crosses the Canadian and cross-bonds are installed at looo-ft. intervals. Oak tiesare placed sixteen to the rail, or about 2 ft. center to is largely of sand. It is proposed to ballast thewhole interurban line with broken stone during the nextyear. A more permanent roadbed was obtained and drain-age facilitated by making the cuts and fills very wide, asshown in the illustration. At the top the fills are 18 ft. and. ;.\ I KKIXi; SIIAWXKE FROM THE EAST, SHOWING THE IXDERGRADE CROSSING River near Shawnee two trestles, aggregating 500 ft. inlength, were erected, but other than these no large structureswere required. Steam road crossings occur at four are at grade crossings on branch lines, while two neareach other in Shawnee are under-grade crossings. At thispoint, fortunately, the steam roads were carried across aravine on a trestle, so that no depression of the electric linewas necessary. Xn licavy cuts were required in the con- at the bottom the cuts are 20 ft. in width. One of the viewsshows some of the ditches dug behind the cuts to pro-tect them from surface water. The company has now underconsideration the building of an extension to connect theShawnee lines with the Oklahoma City lines, a distance of40 miles. POWER SUPPLY Power is rented on a meter basis from the Shawnee Light-
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